The name Nala is originally a masculine Sanskrit name meaning ‘stem’. In Hindu mythology, Nala is a king who was able to cook without lighting fire.
Nala is a first name for girls.
The name Nala isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Nala ranks 749. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Nala. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nala.
The name Nala is originally a masculine Sanskrit name meaning ‘stem’. In Hindu mythology, Nala is a king who was able to cook without lighting fire.
In modern times,... the name Nala became popular as a girl's name through the film 'The Lion King' (1994).
You may not know anyone named Nala, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to women and girls named Nala. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Nala living in one state or another. If your name is Nala and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Nala relative to the population, you still have to ask 13,343 women and girls their names before you hear Nala as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Nala is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Nala and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nala, you can simply say:
Nut
Apple
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nala
Nala
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
A
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
N
A
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nala sounds like this:
